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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- bumper ['b^mpər]
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1.
noun
[c]
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保险杠
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2.
adjective
bumper crop/harvest 大丰收
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1.
noun
[c]
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保险杠
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- bumper ['b^mpə]
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1.
n
a horizontal metal bar attached to the front or rear end of a car, lorry, etc, to protect against damage from impact
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2.
n
a person or machine that bumps
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3.
n
[cricket]
a ball bowled so that it bounces high on pitching; bouncer
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1.
n
a horizontal metal bar attached to the front or rear end of a car, lorry, etc, to protect against damage from impact
- bumper ['b^mpə]
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1.
n
a glass, tankard, etc, filled to the brim, esp as a toast
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2.
n
an unusually large or fine example of something
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3.
adj
unusually large, fine, or abundant
- a bumper crop
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4.
vt.
[tr]
to toast with a bumper
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5.
vt.
[tr]
to fill to the brim
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6.
vi.
[intr]
to drink bumpers
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7.
vi.
[Etymology]
C17 (in the sense: a brimming glass): probably from bump (obsolete vb) to bulge; see
bump
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1.
n
a glass, tankard, etc, filled to the brim, esp as a toast
- bumper ['b^mpə]
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1.
n
[Austral]
[old-fashioned informal]
a cigarette end
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2.
n
[Etymology]
C19: perhaps from a blend of
butt 1 andstump
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1.
n
[Austral]
[old-fashioned informal]
a cigarette end
Examples
- a bumper crop (或harvest)
- 丰收 → bumper
- My children had all the fun of the fair playing in the bumper cars.
- 我的几个孩子玩碰碰车，公平比赛，乐趣多多。
- a bumper crop → bumper
- 今年丰收已成定局。
- It's a foregone conclusion that we'll have a bumper harvest this year. → 定局
- 丰产经验
- experience in getting bumper crops → 丰产
- 连年丰收
- bumper harvests for years running → 丰收
- 一派丰收景象
- one vast panorama of bumper crops → 景象
- 累年丰收
- have bumper harvests year after year → 累年
- 粮棉双丰收
- a bumper harvest of grain and cotton → 粮
- 一片丰收景象
- a vast countryside bringing in bumper crops → 片
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